Full Metal Sergeant

This game seems simple but can present a challenge. You are a drill sergeant training your men for a multi-area mission over 12 weeks. Each recruit presents special challenges which you can drill out of them, all toward the goal of completing at least the first area of the end-training mission. Be aware that your graduates can die on these missions, but any who survive can be brought back as assistant drill instructors to bolster future recruits. Overall, a pretty fun game and definitely replayable.

I was really excited for this after I played the demo; but in the end it's just a dead fish. Ya cant win! No strategy! You can try and specifically train certain soldiers for certain roles (try making a sniper see how long it takes) but it does not matter. If you can make it to stage 3 in the mission zone you get overwhelmed by grenade throwers, mortars, snipers, close combat specs who just run up. There is no easy way to train people how'd you like. You can't mark soldiers or categorize them to quickly set up training, it becomes micromanagement hell. It's a shame because training, upgrading, testing out missions, losing, training new soldiers has a great flow in the first few hours until you realize there is zero balance.

Got a lot of flashbacks from my time in the army. Even though this is based around marine corps training, the memories still flood in. Honestly, it was the best 14 weeks of my life.